NOTE: Been in contact with LTC White. Reposting due to changes made to original post and including PDF file of LTC White’s speech. LTC White is amazed and humbled at how viral this video has become online. Via SFC (ret)…

This is for all the liberal “blame America first” guys who go “home to sleep at night under that blanket of freedom provided by better men.”…

]]>By: Entelechyhttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38738
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:21:39 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38738As posted on the day he spoke, here are two favorites:

YOU WON’T HAVE TO GUESS OR BASE AN OPINION ON SOME BESPECTACLED SO CALLED EXPERT, OR HOLLYWOOD “PROFESSIONAL PRETENDER” WHO DEFINES DANGER AS CROSSING THE STREET, LEAVING CAMPUS, OR HAVING A DECAF LATTE INSTEAD OF A REGULAR. YOUR HEAD WILL NOT BE FILLED WITH THE EMPTY THEORY OF THE OLD PATHETIC SLACKERS WHO TEACH ON MANY CAMPUSES… THE ONES WHO RAN TO CANADA, OR HID OUT IN EUROPE, WHILE MANY OF THE VETS WITH US HERE TODAY PUT IT ALL ON THE LINE IN A PLACE CALLED VIETNAM. THE SNIDE ARROGANT CROWD WHO SPEND THE DAY BLAMING AMERICA FOR EVERY WRONG IN THE WORLD BEFORE GOING HOME TO SLEEP AT NIGHT UNDER THE BLANKET OF FREEDOM PROVIDED BY BETTER MEN! …BETTER MEN SUCH AS YOU STANDING ON THE GRADUATION FIELD.

…and

I FOR ONE WILL NEVER…EVER… APOLOGIZE FOR BEING AN AMERICAN AND DON’T YOU EVER FEEL THAT YOU HAVE TO. WE’RE NOT PERFECT BUT I CAN THINK OF NO PLACE BETTER. WE DIDN’T BECOME THE GREAT COUNTRY THAT WE ARE BY ACCIDENT….WE EARNED IT! —- AND WHILE WE WERE AT IT— WE KEPT AND CONTINUE TO KEEP A LARGE PORTION OF THE WORLD FREE. AMERICAN BLOOD AND SACRIFICE IS THE INDISPUTABLE PART OF THE WORLD EQUATION. MORE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD ARE TRYING TO COME TO OUR SHORES THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY. WE REMAIN THE BEACON OF HOPE FOR MANY, AND GOD WILLING IT WILL ALWAYS BE SO. WE’RE NUMBER 1…DON’T APOLOGIZE FOR IT – BE DAMN PROUD OF IT!

LTC White speaks of what is so obvious to those who visit Hot Air: MSM, Academia, and Liberal engaging in sedition while enjoying the freedom and benefits of a great nation protected by those so much better than they are.

WWI and WWII were fought by patriots and Americans who believed in our great nation – and laws were enforced against sedition that made UNITY an important priority. We Should go back to those times and identify as Americans, with the interests of the United States at heart.

I believe the word “Patriot” is a dirty word in places like San Francisco – and we need to change these attitudes by going back to when Unity was more important than “Multiculturalism”.

]]>By: RobertCSampsonhttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38691
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:52:50 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38691My kinda guy for sure. Thank you to him and all of you guys to remind me I’m not alone.
]]>By: Cake or Deathhttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38679
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:18:00 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38679UN Israeli-Lebahezbollanon ceasefire is a win for…

AllahPundit over at Hot Air has a great piece about how he feels the ceasefire is a win for Hezbollah simply because they survived and a loss for Israel because they couldn’t kill every last man in Hezbollah. He goes on to speculate that Lebanon bein….

[cross posted at my other Cake or Death]AllahPundit over at Hot Air has a great piece about how he feels the ceasefire is a win for Hezbollah simply because they survived and a loss for Israel because they couldn’t kill every last man in Hezbollah…….

]]>By: DAT60A3http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38638
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:30:40 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38638Back in the day, we used to say “what the U.S. Army and the Soviet Army had in common is that they both have political officers”. COL David Hackworth (an absolutely great American who unfortunately passed away)called them “perfumed princes”. LTC White is none of the above. He is the type of commander that looks out for the troops first. He is an absolute inspiration to all. Bless him and all like him; damned few left.

Greg
former Army CPT

]]>By: alycehttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38636
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:26:28 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38636AMEN LTC Randolph C. White Jr.
Let No Other Be Heard But The United States Military..

My Son Was Trained There But I Think It Was For A Paratrooper
Training..(He’s Been To Different Places , So I’ve Lost My Mommy Mind..)

He Made Me The Proudest Mother In The World..

]]>By: mikeybosshttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38633
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:03:08 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38633I admit I do like me a good latte. I hope I’ll think of this great man every time I enjoy one. I have no illusions of where I’d be without guys like this.
]]>By: wcarrhttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38615
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:02:03 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38615By now Dean, Hillary and “WAR HERO” Kerry have called for an apology for that speech.
]]>By: Random Jottingshttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38600
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:31:40 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38600straight talk……

Michelle Malkin has a video of a great speech by Lt Col Randolp C. White, to a graduating class at Fort Benning. If you are sick of the latté crowd shitting on America all day and then toddling home……

]]>By: mkstachhttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38590
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:13:27 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38590Why isn’t LTC White running for public office somewhere? OK, why isn’t he running against Pelosi? (Please feel free to insert the name of your own favorite Democratic incumbant.) Why do we hear more about Cindy Sheehan than we do about heroes like this?
]]>By: pullingmyhairouthttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38580
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:01:55 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38580we have a nephew who graduated from Ft. Benning basic two years ago. now he’s finishing up (God willing) his first tour in Iraq. He left for basic a boy, graduated a man. Left for Iraq a man and is coming home a warrior. he is our hero. Leaders like this LTC do this country proud by speaking the plain truth. HE is a REAL supporter of the troops!!
]]>By: Spurius Ligustinushttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38570
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:46:58 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38570What a great speech – makes me want to break out into song (to the tune of, “Alma Mater”)–

If one day I ever find myself strolling past my old stompin’ grounds at Harmony Church, I’d like to make a quick detour, find the good colonel, buy him a drink and get him to tell me what he really thinks.

PS: Is it just me, or does Michelle keep looking better and better the longer her hair gets?

]]>By: TBinSTLhttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/comment-page-1/#comment-38560
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:26:09 +0000http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/15/lt-col-randolph-c-white-a-great-american/#comment-38560Let me add that while I fit the demographic that this speech derides, I recognize that these men are my betters and do what little I can to let them know it. It reminds me of a certain St Crispin’s Day speech….

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.